This afternoon I noticed that my /home partition was expanding
again. Normally when I run df -h it shows /home as being filled to 52% of
the available space; this afternoon, though, it was up to 100%. I was away
from my computer and logging in remotely so I didn't want to do anything
too drastic. I just found some wine processes that were running and killed
them, then deleted some extra tar files that I'd accumulated, to bring
things down to 98% so that my computer could keep running until I could get
home and reboot it, which is what stopped this problem before (I never did
figure out what was causing it).
So when I rebooted, I found some root filesystem errors, fixed them with
fsck /. Then X wouldn't start. I checked the message log and saw this error:
fatal error: could not open default font fixed
(or something like that).
Fearing nasty trouble, I decided I'd take the simpleton's way out and just
repair things from my installation disk. That process complained because
I'd created a symbolic link to /var on a large extra partition on my hard
drive (it wanted me to transform the absolute symbolic link /var to a
relative symbolic link -- something that is outside my realm of knowledge,
I'm afraid, though I did try to find it in my books).
I decided I'd simply move the files in /var back to the root partition. I
tried to start this process by creating a temporary directory in / with the
command,
# mkdir /var2
...to which I got this error:
could not create directory /var2. Input output error.
...and that just seems terrifying to me.
I'm running a Red Hat 7.2 system, not quite brave enough to do a full
reinstall of Linux (though I might just do that, after copying all of my
documents to a CD).
I hope I've provided enough information. What else could I be doing?
Sliante,
Richard S. Crawford
http://www.mossroot.com
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invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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